Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SW WATERGATE STREET AND ROW
595-1/3/427 (North side)
28/07/55 No.92 Street
(Formerly Listed as:
WATERGATE STREET
No.92)

GV II

Town house now offices. c1780 altered. Brown Flemish bond
brickwork with grey slate roof.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, slightly lower than its neighbours.
Painted stone plinth has a barred opening to cellar; recessed
porch to east has 2 steps to 5-panel door, with top panel
glazed, and a cast-iron radial-bar fanlight; timber case to
porch, damaged at foot, has roses at corners of architrave and
a moulded hood. 2 windows to each storey; replaced recessed
3-pane sashes to first storey, replaced 2-pane sashes to
second storey and flush unequal sashes to third storey, now
with 2 rows of 2 panes in lower leaves and one row of 4 panes
in upper leaf; modillion cornice; a west ridge chimney. The
brickwork is continuous with No.1 Stanley Street (qv).
The rear has a projecting stairwell with a tall 18-pane sash,
east, and a 12-pane sash to each storey; there is a small
monopitch outshut behind the stairwell.
INTERIOR: the first storey front room has a door of 5 fielded
panels, panelled embrasures, cupboards with fluted friezes to
each side of blocked chimney breast; a small cornice. Stone
steps to cellar, parts with brick barrel-vaulted ceilings;
sandstone party wall to No.94 Street (qv).
The stair to second and third storeys is covered. The second
storey has doors of 5 fielded panels, panelled embrasures and
a plaster cornice. The third storey could not be inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ4018866210

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26657013

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)